The Bleak Midwinter [TAW, Kerisgame, Exalted]

Question. If we wanted to start the game with mutations, what would be its cost? 1 style point equals 1 mutation point?
If you have the valid charms to allow for partial manifestation and a valid source for the mutation (i.e. Totemic self announcement or Hearts Blood), I'd just allow it for the commitment.

If not.. Yeah that sounds about right.
The kerisgame system sounds interesting, I'm curious to see what will come of it.
Name: Cursed Egg
Caste: Full Moon
Enlightenment: 6
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Appearance:


Motivation: Grow strong enough to never be chained again

Enlightenment: 6
Essence: 14/16
Committed: 2

Willpower: 5/5

Soak:
Bashing: 5 ()
Lethal: 2 ()
Aggravated: ()
Hardness: (0/0)

Health: 11/11
-0 [ ]
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-2 [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
-4 [ ]
Inc [ ]
Dying: [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

Join Battle/Debate:
Join War:
Dodge DV:
Parry DV ():
Parry DV (Kick):
Parry DV (Punch):

Dodge MDV:
Parry MDV:

Move: ( Swimming/Climbing)
Dash: ( Swimming/Climbing)
Jump: (V)/ (H)

Attributes: (Mark Favoured and Caste in Bold)
-Physique: ●●●●●
-Endurance: ●●●●●
-Persuasion: ●●
-Reaction: ●●●
-Cognition: ●●

Abilities:
Command
Expression ●
Investigation ●
Athletics ●●●●
Bureaucracy
Melee ●●●●
Presence ●●●
Lore ●
Awareness ●●●
Politics ●●
Ranged
Survival ●●●●●
Occult ●●
Subterfuge ●●●
Travel ●

Styles:
Languages (Airtongue ●●● (Native), Old Realm ●●● (Exalted Native))
Foreign Language (Lore)
Though not a true Style, fluency in a foreign language is treated as though it were one. Characters automatically start with their native tongue fully mastered, and can learn other languages through study, practice with native speakers, immersion in foreign cultures or long periods of careful observation. Characters who know one language may make themselves understood in a closely related tongue at one point lower, or a vaguely related one at two points lower. Exalted treat Old Realm as a native language.
1: Basic competence, sufficient for necessities but obviously clumsy.
2: Viable second language, with minor tells like an accent.
3: Full fluency, perfect accent.

Iron-Willed Pursuer Style ●●
Iron-Willed Pursuer Style (Athletics/Survival)
Sometimes all you need is sheer endurance. Sheer endurance and the willingness to not stop until the other person is in your hands at at your mercy. Iron-Willed Pursuer Style is based on the necessity of running someone down completely and utterly. This style is applicable when in pursuit of a fleeing foe who wishes to avoid combat.
1. +1 to Dash Speed
2. +1 to tracking down an escaped enemy
3. something about resisting wound penalties, since this is based on the terminator

Wall-Running Gymnast Style ●●●
Wall-Running Gymnast Style (Athletics)
Parkour, free-running, the wingless flight... there are many names for the fast, agile style of movement beloved of a certain class of agile gymnast. Traceurs tumble and toss themselves around with reckless abandon; vaulting over obstacles, leaping across gaps and dodging around anyone who tries to bar their way. This Style cannot be practiced with any equipment that incurs a mobility penalty.
1: +1 to balance rolls.
2: +1 to jump distance pools.
3: +1 to scaling surfaces at speed.

Bitterly Swallowed Insults Style ●●●
Bitterly Swallowed Insults Style (Politics)
Sometimes there is a person who makes bile rise up in your gorge. But bite it back, swallow it, and pretend nothing is wrong. This style is built around interacting with people you have a revulsion towards. It aids in false flattery, concealing your feelings, and basically being a two faced liar.
1: +1 to convincing another of a falsehood or deception
2: -1 when rolling to suppress Virtues and Principles
3: +1 to MDV pool against people attempting to determine Principles

Lunarian Chimera Style ●●●
Lunarian Chimera Style (Melee/Range)
Quick, brutal, vicious, monstrous. These are the basic foundational understandings for a lunar in combat. Moving suddenly with unnatural strength and speed, the terrifying argent witches are the monster-wardens who are monsters themselves, protecting creation in the dark. Lunarian Chimera Style can be used with any sort of weapon or armor with the natural keyword.
1: +1 damage to the first attack made in a round
2: +1 to hit when attacking with a natural weapon
3: +1 damage when attacking any creatures with the 'outside' keyword

Social Saboteur Style ●●
Social Saboteur Style (Politics, Bureaucracy)
Any social structure has its enemies. Sometimes they work within the system to bring it down. Sometimes they use less legal tactics. Saboteurs who use this Style employ deceit, implication and even violence to spread panic, paranoia, chaos and mayhem among those they target, be they polities or people. They identify the weakest parts of a system and deal them crippling blows to induce breakdown and entropy; stripping away a single man's wealth or working towards the collapse of an entire city.
1: +1 to identifying weaknesses in a target's assets.
2: +1 to attacks made against identified weaknesses.
3: +1 to MDV pool against attempts to predict future attacks.

Sharp-Eyed Shopkeeper Style ●●
Sharp-Eyed Shopkeeper Style (Awareness)
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and nowhere is it known better than in the shops and stalls of Creation. From the Little Market of Nexus to the bazaars of Chiaroscuro and back, purveyors of commerce must stay ever-wary, and know from experience how to recognise the gleam of interest in a customer's eye, spot the sneaking movements of a thief, or pick up on the signs of a well-rehearsed scam.
1: +1 to reading a customer while haggling.
2: +1 to spotting attempted theft.
3: +1 to recognising counterfeit money.

Backgrounds:
Resources ●●●● (Hoarded Wealth)
Heart's Blood ●● (Crow, Wolf, Big Horn, Lynx, Wolverine, Elk)
Artifact ● (Silver Pattern-Armor)
Guanxi ●

Possessions:

Charms:
Nandi-Frame Fortitude x 5
Shining Lunar Bond
World-Enduring evolution
Shapeless Body Unblemished
Change-Accepting Adaptation
Deva Denying Strike
Body-Optimized Pursuit
Blow for Blow
Violence's Answer
Escessive Sen-no-Sen Defence
Body-as-Weapon Unity
Not-Quite-There Atemi
Relentless Blade Hound Attack
Change-Accepting Adaptation
Hard-Earn Silver Callus
Aegis of Adaptation
Flicker-Flash Flesh Phase
Protean Soul Engagement
Your Eternal Reward
World's Edge Aesthetics

Principles:
1.
2. "Hates Faeries"
3. "Save Yourself from Monsters by Learning From Them"; "Retribution is Justice"
4. "Freedom is Life, Chains are Death"
5. "Survive"

Virtues:
Compassion ●●●
Conviction ●●●
Valour ●
Temperance ●●

Lunacy:
0/10 (0 Permanent)

Character Background:

Where were you born: Whitewall! Whitewall! Prosperous City of the North! Bastion of Law and Order! Wretched evil slave trafficking city which sends men and women to the fae. May it be one day toppled by the very same cursed institutions that keep it alive.

What did you do before you were Exalted: Cursed Egg was born as an orphan, to a father who died over the course of his time in his mother's womb, and a monster who died before she could see her newborn babe for the first time. His midwife named him Cursed, for she thought he had brought ill fortune to his parents. But his childhood was not bad, because the relatives who took him in treated him well and like one of their own and he had never want of not knowing a father or a mother.

Then they died of winter illness.

Whitewall gave him, an orphan with no more relatives to the fae as tribute then. The fae nurtured friendships between the tributes, a partner for each one, and them promised to hurt their partner if they disobeyed. Far more effective chains than any working of quicksilver, the tributes were bound to be played with and tortured for more than two years. Chained by friendship and compassion and soft hearts.

Why were you exalted: Chains of your own making are the hardest to break and in some ways the easiest. Cursed Egg realized one day that the greatest thing that was keeping him bound was himself. One day, he turned his back, wept bitter tears, broke his own heart, and walked away. A silver Dionysian god-king tore its way out of a fae court and that was that.

How did you see Luna: Liberator, benefactor, well wisher. She makes no demands of her exalted, and puts no chains on them. Instead, she gives freedom, which of course, is power.

What have you done since you have exalted: The Hunter becomes the Hunted. Since he escaped, Cursed Egg has stayed among the edges of creation, within the fae courts. He travels from one court to another, where he integrates himself slowly into their courts with his quicksilver outsider appealing appearance. He learns their ways and he learns their habits. And once he has learned all he can, he kills them. In this way he has consumed many small bands of fae from the inside out. The slaves, he frees, so they may attempt to long journey back to civilization (or die of exposure on the edges of creation).

I have no idea if these styles are good or not tbh
I like him. Very nice.
 
Righto...

Estro, just let go of the apron strings. You are the ST and you're not going to be able to get Earthscorpion's (read Imrix) group to hold your hand.

Claiming you want to tell a story then you ignore story, but you can't read a story piece (the only real one in the thread, then you call it short, in comparison to what I've no clue - short for me perhaps but it's 1/3 of the tale) for any inherent meaning.

Imrix coming in to defend you, you are not going to have that when you are running. You are not going to have anyone to explain character agenda and agency - much less subtext.

If it was not clear before, I will reiterate here, I withdraw my interest. I feel you are not trying to Roleplay or Storytell - I feel you are aiming towards a mechanics focused brawl-fest. I do not feel you have the ability to draw substance from or a desire to - encounter and come to know the persona revealed in written word. As this is a PbP, I find that a most troubling thing. So I only hope that your distant orbit around "the" cult of personality is able to embolden and enable you to run something beyond a disjointed self-interested spiel.
Good riddance ya fucking prick

Sorry for the lack of sheet on my part so far. Work has been nuts. I should be able to crank through it on my day off tomorrow.
 
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If you have the valid charms to allow for partial manifestation and a valid source for the mutation (i.e. Totemic self announcement or Hearts Blood), I'd just allow it for the commitment.

If not.. Yeah that sounds about right.

Since I plan for my Totem to be an Orca, I guess getting large lungs and sonar is just going to b a commitment.

Thinking about it, most of the mutations I want are easily obtainable just by Heart's Blood. Looks like most of my time will be spent making new styles.
 
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